Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Twin gendarmerie, at your service.
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Wonder Twins' Powers, Activate!
- Thread starter BJ
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originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
Yeah, that is too bad to hear Brad. Is questionable provenance a recurrent theme for you left coasters? Seems I've heard grumblings from various folks on occasion.
Fwiw, I picked up my '09 normales from Crush and had them shipped in during cool weather last year. They've all been fine wines.
I actually don't think that I've tried one here in Seattle, but my buddies Marc D and Brian C tell me they're bad, and they know what they're talking about, to the extent that I describe their experience as my own.
But now I'm curious, so I'm going to do my own experiment.
They're not my favorite Lapierres but didn't strike me as damaged. More a vintage thing for me.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by BJ:
Is my hyphen on twins' in the wrong place in the title? I hate rules. Someone do compliance for me.
You're cool. There is more than one twin, correct? And they both possess powers? If so, you're off the hook, Brad.
Mark Lipton
If you're aiming for a quote it's "Wonder Twin powers, activate!"
However I'd say a strong argument can be made that your formation is the correct one given that
a) they are known as the Wonder Twins
b) the powers can only be used by the two of them together
c) their individual powers are distinct
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Those are good points, but "Wonder Twin" in the expression "Wonder Twin powers" is working as an adjective....
Like SFJoe and Mark Lipton saying: "Chemist knowledge, activate!"
Or maureen and I saying: "Wine board woman commentary, onward!"
Like SFJoe and Mark Lipton saying: "Chemist knowledge, activate!"
Or maureen and I saying: "Wine board woman commentary, onward!"
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
According to Wikipedia they did not need to shout that for their powers to work, it was just a habit of theirs. Simpler times...
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Those are good points, but "Wonder Twin" in the expression "Wonder Twin powers" is working as an adjective....
Like SFJoe and Mark Lipton saying: "Chemist knowledge, activate!"
Or maureen and I saying: "Wine board woman commentary, onward!"
Customarily in English, extended adjectives are hyphenated to distinguish them from several independent adjectives. To wit, it's "my old-but-not-expired dog" but "my old, tired, shaggy dog." So, properly it would be "Wonder-Twin powers, activate!" if that's the intended meaning.
Pedantically yours,
Mark Lipton
John Roberts
John Roberts
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Those are good points, but "Wonder Twin" in the expression "Wonder Twin powers" is working as an adjective....
Like SFJoe and Mark Lipton saying: "Chemist knowledge, activate!"
Or maureen and I saying: "Wine board woman commentary, onward!"
Customarily in English, extended adjectives are hyphenated to distinguish them from several independent adjectives. To wit, it's "my old-but-not-expired dog" but "my old, tired, shaggy dog." So, properly it would be "Wonder-Twin powers, activate!" if that's the intended meaning.
Pedantically yours,
Mark Lipton
Not so fast. While compound modifiers are often joined by a hyphen when the meaning would otherwise be unclear, one should not hyphenate the compound modifier if the meaning is clear to the audience.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Those are good points, but "Wonder Twin" in the expression "Wonder Twin powers" is working as an adjective....
Like SFJoe and Mark Lipton saying: "Chemist knowledge, activate!"
Or maureen and I saying: "Wine board woman commentary, onward!"
Like.
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Twin gendarmerie, at your service.
Whatever the fuck it is, don't bother me with the details.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
Who are the Wonder Twins? What are their powers? Really one can't answer grammatic questions without having semantic content. On the basis of Jay's post, I am guessing this is a form of call (and response?) while activating said powers and not an incantation to get them to activite, as for instance, Shazaam. In that case, the phrase could be "Wonder Twins! Powers Activate" (although why the reverse word order of the second fragment, I don't know; were the twins not native speakers of English?). On the other hand, if twin were singular, the phrase could be a command from one twin to another: "Wonder Twin! Power Activate!" sort of like Jean-Luc Picard saying "Replicator! Earl Grey tea, hot!" although he never named the replicator when talking to it. In none of these cases do we need either apostrophe or hyphen. If they were actually apostrophasizing the powers, however, if they pluralized twins, BJ's punctuation is right. If they addressed the power as twin power, as an extended adjectival phrase, I would vote against hyphens as being unnecessary.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Who are the Wonder Twins? What are their powers?
After activating their powers by touching each other the girl can turn into any animal and the boy can turn into anything made out of water (including ice, steam, etc.).
originally posted by BJ:
You don't know who the Wonder Twins are? Jonathan. Please. You need to get out more.
How would going outside help Jonathan learn about the Wonder Twins? If anything, to learn about them he should stay inside and consume more comic book culture.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Jay Miller:
the boy can turn into anything made out of water (including ice, steam, etc.).
Don't forget the weird added ability to scare up a receptacle (i.e. if he turns into a bucket of water, he is magically inside a bucket. It's like the Hulk's clothing always ripping off at the armpits and knees, then somehow coming back to normal, later).
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
On the basis of Jay's post, I am guessing this is a form of call (and response?) while activating said powers and not an incantation to get them to activite, as for instance, Shazaam.
Maybe they require an explicit verbal agreement to turn them on.
He is not the only innocent in these woods.originally posted by BJ:
You don't know who the Wonder Twins are? Jonathan. Please. You need to get out more.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by BJ:
You don't know who the Wonder Twins are? Jonathan. Please. You need to get out more.
How would going outside help Jonathan learn about the Wonder Twins? If anything, to learn about them he should stay inside and consume more comic book culture.
Comic books. Ah! I admit, I stopped reading comic books after the age of twelve or so, though I still read the funnies in the newspaper (largely through habit: the departure of Calvin and Hobbes left me irrevocably broken). I thought they were a Saturday morning cartoon.